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Re: Granger Injury.

Starters should now be Augustin, Hill, George, West, Hibbert. Offensively, what a lineup! Ball movement should be awesome, good shooters at most points on the court. Defense could prove problematic against teams with quick penetrators though.

Re: Granger Injury.

According to Wells Hill is not ready to play either, so it looks like the starting unit is going to be different for a while.

I don't think Wells is saying Granger is not prepared to play. He's just saying if he does so, it will be with pain. I think, like West, Granger will set an example for the younger players by playing with/through pain. The Pacers have high expectations and that requires granger, and more importantly, he knows it.

I say play Granger as much as is required to win games. No less, and hopefully not much more.

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Re: Granger Injury.

Agree. If Danny needs to play to break up the scars and play through the pain, I think that's what he will do. I believe DG played thru a lot more pain than we heard about last year. If Frank has to limit Danny's time, it will give us an earlier look at PG, Green and Young. Silver lining?

Re: Granger Injury.

I'm concerned, but not overly freaking out. If he's hobbled all season clearly that changes the outlook. And yet Green getting more playing time intrigues me.

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Re: Granger Injury.

I think we should start Gerald Green and let Granger rest. If he doesn't get better, we can trade him (probably for nothing) or if we can, amnesty him.

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It isn't unprecedented for PRP to take multiple injections to really get back, and there is a 4-6 waiting period between each one. Also, we know that he has experienced reduction in pain from articles a few weeks back. Since then he's started working it harder, and he's experiencing pain due to built up scar tissue in the knee, which Danny notes, pain resulting from the built up scar tissue won't go away by resting it, which he mentioned as well, thus, he has to play through it, in spite of the pain. As he builds up game-strength in the knee, and the PRP therapy stimulates his natural healing factors in the knee, repairing the scar tissue he should feel less and less pain over time. Danny hasn't even mentioned sitting out at all, that was editorializing on the part of Wells, whom i've learned not to put too much creedance in if he isn't directly reporting something. Danny will be grimacing for a while, but once some more of that scar tissue is broken up he'll be better off in the long run. We're lucky enough to have some decent depth now, so that we don't force Danny to push it too far too early.

Re: Granger Injury.

i just hope it doesn't turn into an injury like this plantar Fascia which was made much worse by his over compensating while playing injured.

It appears to be scar tissue in the knee, it's not something that should really structurally affect gait or anything it will be sore, and hurt, but I don't think it is something that's going to get re-aggravated due to playing on it, unless of course he injures it in some unrelated incident, which could always happen.

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Re: Granger Injury.

Wait, what? The way you talk, I'd figure Granger could be replaced by an 80-year-old with a walker.

Not an 80 years old man with a walker but more like a Mike Dunleavy after the surgery, or JO, or Jeff Foster, or Bender,etc, I know that many of you love to ignore it but Danny dropped to the Pacers because teams expected this to happen, his knee is going to be an issue with scar tissue or not.

And nope I'm not comparing him to Dunleavy or JO I'm just using it an example in how much productivity looks like Danny is going to lose with this constant pain in his knee.

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Re: Granger Injury.

That doesn't make any sense. He can't be replaced by Green or Paul George, but he can be replaced by Dunleavy, JO, Foster, or Bender?

Am I being punked right now?

I think we're lost in translation here.

I believe vnzla is saying that he worries Granger's knee trouble may turn into something similar to what we saw with MDJ after the surgery, never returning to form. Or JO never getting back to his All-Star form. Or the terrible Bender saga where he could never stay healthy enough to shock the world. Not that any of those players could replace Danny.